Activity Facilitator - Through the Gate

The Growth Company\’s (GC) Justice Services have an exciting vacancy for anActivity Facilitator.

Are you passionate about helping others build a better future? We’re looking for a dedicated individual to support people before and after their release from custody. In this rewarding role, you’ll provide one-to-one case management, advocacy, mentoring, and tailored training to help participants overcome barriers and progress into education, training, and long-term employment.

We help to make a lasting difference to the lives of people throughout the North of England and beyond, by supporting individuals to gain meaningful employment.

Our highly skilled advisers and keyworkers work with a range of individuals; from people who have found themselves recently out of work, to those with complex barriers such as physical disabilities, mental ill-health and debt.

Key Responsibilities:

• Pre-Release and Post-Release Support: Engage with and case manage participants both prior to and following release from custody. Provide tailored advocacy, mentoring, advice, guidance, and training interventions to support individual needs and progression into education, training, and sustained employment.

• Intervention Delivery: Design and deliver both group and one-to-one sessions, including initial assessments and the development of personalized action plans.

• Community Engagement: Collaborate with community, voluntary, and mainstream ETE (Education, Training, Employment) services to address barriers and promote participant reintegration. Strengthen community links to support crime-free lifestyles.

• Participant Relationship Building: Establish and maintain positive relationships with participants in custody and post-release. Promote awareness of available support services and the benefits of engagement.

• Service Delivery Locations: Provide services across custodial settings and community venues to ensure broad accessibility.

• Participant Assessment & Planning: Identify individual learning needs, create action plans, and design tailored training and interventions

• Support & Engagement: Build rapport with participants, support decision-making, and guide them in accessing information and planning future actions.

• Learning & Development: Prepare resources, deliver group and one-to-one sessions to enhance communication, social skills, and employability.

• Employment Support: Facilitate job-matching and brokerage into suitable employment opportunities.

• Monitoring & Improvement: Record progress on CRM systems, coordinate follow-up activities, and contribute to service improvement through regular reporting.

• Promotion and Networking: Actively promote the service to partner organizations and potential participants through networking and marketing efforts.

About You:

• Working with offenders, or those disaffected and marginalised from mainstream services, in training, guidance, advice and counselling environments.
• Have strong interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills.
• Ability to work in a target-driven environment, with a focus on the successful achievement of outcomes for participants.
• High level guidance skills, with the ability to deliver one-to-one and group sessions to at least Grade 2 standard.
• A warm, approachable empathetic style and the ability to establish a rapport and build relationships with participants that supports their progression to education, training and employment and facilitates desistance from crime.
• Access to a motor vehicle as this role involves visiting various sites.

Skills Required:

• Information Advice and Guidance and / or teaching qualifications, (or equivalent), desired, but experience working intensively with individuals and supporting their progression is most important.
• Knowledge regarding the issues affecting the rehabilitation of offenders, and desistance theory.
• Knowledge of National Probation Services or HM Prison environments and/or training, education, and employment opportunities locally and nationally, and of training and guidance.
• Strong interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills.

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